Had a run-in with one of those new Dodges...
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From: OH
Originally posted by Zoechops
do the img, just save it to a word document and cut and paste it when you want to use it. That's what I had to do with all of mine, being on a slow-ass dial up and all.
do the img, just save it to a word document and cut and paste it when you want to use it. That's what I had to do with all of mine, being on a slow-ass dial up and all.
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From: Come see me after class.
Originally posted by Meeyatch1
The Vipers have not seemed that bad to me. I have driven both the RT-10 and the GTS and they were both fine for both city and highway travel. While the noise deadening is minimal, I could still hold conversations in them without issue and they seemed just like any other car, just with more power.
As far as the track, the Viper is anything from as smooth as the NSX on the track. The attention to the accelerator is much more sharp, and the suspension is totally different. You did not think so?
The Vipers have not seemed that bad to me. I have driven both the RT-10 and the GTS and they were both fine for both city and highway travel. While the noise deadening is minimal, I could still hold conversations in them without issue and they seemed just like any other car, just with more power.
As far as the track, the Viper is anything from as smooth as the NSX on the track. The attention to the accelerator is much more sharp, and the suspension is totally different. You did not think so?
Mitch, yeah the Vipers would be fine, but my point was that they're not the best choice for a daily driver. The reactions are more instantaneous, and the conseqences more severe.
On the track, the Viper is not the same as the NSX, in the sense that they can both be driven equally fast by an average driver as it can an experienced driver (almost anyone can drive an NSX fast - it's that good - while the Viper requires more skilled hands to reach full potential). But, they're similar in the sense that they're both super fast on the track, with high limits that, when surpassed, can hardly be forgiving.
From my experience on the track with both cars (ACR and NSX-T), the cars behaved very much alike, as far as suspension goes. Throttle response was just as quick in the NSX as it was the Viper, albeit the Mopar had twice as much grunt as the little Honda. I liken the comparo to that of say, an S2000 and ITR.
Perhaps I had driven a slighlty modified NSX, but in my limited experience, they aren't too far apart.
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From: In a glass case of emotion!
Originally posted by alexf20c
Mitch, yeah the Vipers would be fine, but my point was that they're not the best choice for a daily driver. The reactions are more instantaneous, and the conseqences more severe.
Mitch, yeah the Vipers would be fine, but my point was that they're not the best choice for a daily driver. The reactions are more instantaneous, and the conseqences more severe.
You are correct that the NSX is far easier to run on the track. The Viper takes a skilled hand to run hard....the NSX makes most drivers look better than they are. There are plenty of people that will hop out of an NSX after a hard drive and say, 'Well, that was easy'. That is where the NSX makes up for drivers lack of skill and the Viper will bite you (no pun intended).
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From: In a glass case of emotion!
...I spent a couple of months driving a 1990 Ferrari 348ts and that car kind of reminds me of the Viper ONLY in that the edge is pretty high up there, and when you cross it the car will bite you RIGHT NOW!! I even drove that car in the snow twice....big mistake! But fun to learn the handling characteristics.